The American Bar Association Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar has released the employment data for 2012 graduates of the nation’s law schools. Graduates of Ohio Northern continue to place better in positions requiring a law degree than the national average. For the second straight year, Ohio Northern placed second among Ohio law schools in placement of its graduates in jobs requiring a law degree.

ONU Law is among the top 10 law schools for job placement in government and public interest positions, according to a report in The National Law Journal.

Ohio Northern was ranked ninth in the nation for schools that sent members of the class of 2012 into either government jobs (such as prosecutors) or public interest jobs (such as public defenders, nonprofit defenders or nonprofit attorneys). ONU had a 22.8 percent placement rate in these categories.